TY - GEN
T1 - A humanoid robot used as an assistive intervention tool for children with autism spectrum disorder
T2 - International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics, BHI 2013
AU - Zhao, Mingqi
AU - Zhao, Qinglin
AU - Liu, Quanying
AU - Li, Na
AU - Peng, Hong
AU - Hu, Bin
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder affecting 60 out of 10,000 individuals. Children with autism are often characterized by repetitive behaviors and by deficits in social skills and communicative abilities. They are usually not willing to communicate with other people. However, researches indicate that most of them are willing to approach and interact with robots or robot-like characteristics. In this paper, we proposed two robotic-assisted intervention models aimed at helping children with ASD to improve their social experiences and establishing relationship quickly between an autistic child and an adult such as a therapist. A preliminary research on testing the responses and interests of three Chinese children with autism toward a humanoid robot is also presented. The result showed different interests of the children toward the robot and proved that the selection phase in our models will be useful.
AB - Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder affecting 60 out of 10,000 individuals. Children with autism are often characterized by repetitive behaviors and by deficits in social skills and communicative abilities. They are usually not willing to communicate with other people. However, researches indicate that most of them are willing to approach and interact with robots or robot-like characteristics. In this paper, we proposed two robotic-assisted intervention models aimed at helping children with ASD to improve their social experiences and establishing relationship quickly between an autistic child and an adult such as a therapist. A preliminary research on testing the responses and interests of three Chinese children with autism toward a humanoid robot is also presented. The result showed different interests of the children toward the robot and proved that the selection phase in our models will be useful.
KW - Autism spectrum disorders
KW - Children
KW - Social assistive robot
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892931106&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892931106
SN - 9783319027524
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 336
EP - 347
BT - Brain and Health Informatics - International Conference, BHI 2013, Proceedings
Y2 - 29 October 2013 through 31 October 2013
ER -